Hey,
Our Wifi Hub is showing a down speed of 39.9Mbps and upload speed of 10Mbps, yet connecting to it with ethernet and doing a speed test returns a speed of between 29~31Mbps down (it hit 28.5Mbps once too), and ~9 upload on both speedtest.net and speed.io. Downloading from the net things seem to hit 3.6/3.7MBps (steam, origin, uplay, through a browser). So not sure what's going on.
I can't see the noise margin on the Wifi Hub either, yet I could when I connected the HG635.
Any help would be appreciated,
Cheers.
Hi Rob_B,
Throughput speeds are always lower than sync speed, generally around 80% but can be higher or lower. Current sync speed is 38Mbps. Can you run a couple of speed tests at least 10 minutes apart on the My Account speed checker on a device connected by Ethernet cable to your router (can you try to make sure that no other devices/applications accessing the internet at the time). Can you post the results
Chris
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Hi Chris,
Managed to do some speed tests, ethernet speeds show about ~30.5Mbps/31Mbps down 9.3Mbps up. This actually mirrors some additional testing I did over WiFi on speed.io. Sync speed is now up to 40Mbps, shame the down speed is so much further away from the sync speed than the up speed is. Never mind.
Cheers,
Rob
Hi Rob,
Thanks for the update. As the sync speed has now increased. Could you try switching the router off for a full 30 minutes and then run another wired speed test to see if there is any further increase in throughput speed.
Thanks
Hi Rob_B,
Ok thanks for the update and please let us know how the connection compares 🙂
Thanks
Heya,
speed has definitely increased, I'm downloading from steam/origin at around 4.6/4.7 MBps, whereas before it was around 3.4/3.6MBps.
The connection seems to randomly drop though, I can be downloading for ages with no issue (78GB of Battlefront 2) while on teamspeak and have no issue, then suddenly the internet will disconnect.
Think it's done it a few times, maybe 5/6, but it's difficult to tell because, unless i missed it, the WiFi Hub doesn't allow too much filtering of it's logs and it starts with the oldest entry first (there's 300 pages!). Ping/packetloss is fine, heck even when I am downloading at the above speed, my ping to our teamspeak server is only at 90 ± 10 and packetloss<1%.
Any suggestions or info that you can think of?
Merry Christmas,
Rob
Hi Rob_B
Apologies for the delay.
How have you found the connection since your last post?
Thanks
Debbie
Hey Debbie,
AFAIK, it's been mostly fine since changing the filter. However it has just dropped with an inbound call which didn't show up on caller display. Is it possible that our two issues are related?
Cheers,
Rob
Edit: In all honests, i don't think the filter is the issue and I think I've just been lucky/not noticed since changing it over with the exception of this evening.
Hi Rob_B
Thanks for your reply.
A voice fault can affect the broadband connection.
Would it be possible to connect the phone, router and filter at the test socket and make a couple of test calls to see if this affects the BB connection?
Is there also any noise on the line? (crackling)
Thanks
Debbie
Heya,
So my testing so far this morning, because it booted us off again after receiving a call where caller display failed us at 8.15am, has consisted of
1) Test call will my mobile as is, using filter #1, longish ring probably around 20 seconds
2) Test using test socket, using filter #1, longish ring probably around 20 seconds
3) Test using test socket and previous filter, filter #2, longish ring probably around 20 seconds
4) Test using test socket, using filter #2 not letting the phone ring for as long, phone ringing for ~3/4 seconds
5) Test using test socket, using filter #2, just letting the phone ring, phone ringing for ~30/40 seconds
Results
1) Initially I had no caller ID this is the same as the last few calls we've received though it's a bit hard to track as our phone doesn't log calls if there is no caller display (rather bloody unhelpful!). Broadband also disconnected.
(N.B. I should note that caller display has worked as recently as yesterday afternoon and I've not been fiddling with anything to make it not work. See also thread here https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Home-Phone/Intermittent-crackling-and-no-caller-display/m-p/2284... )
2) & 3) Plugging into the test socket, I now have caller display (possibly coincidental). Broadband disconnects still. Tested several times, results the same. Upon picking up the phone there seems to be a large amount of inbound static noise that disappears quickly. This is only heard on the house phone. Swapping filter made no difference.
4) Not letting the phone ring for as long, so literally the 2-4 seconds for caller ID to come up and instantly picking up, broadband stays connected. Initial static noise is still there.
5) Letting the phone ring, broadband disconnects (possibly less static noise?)
Other things
Static noise may, and I stress may, be reduced after the router disconnects. Hard to tell to be honest.
There appeared to be no noise on the mobile end, but hard to tell due to not having great signal and what seems like the way mobile calls seem to only transmit after a voice activation threshold has been met. Definitely not the same level of static that the house phone has, unless it's not being transmitted by Three.
When we were disconnected yesterday after receiving a phone call, before Teamspeak stopped receiving info from the server it had an increase in downstream packet loss to 0.4%, upstream packet loss was 0%. This could be something or nothing, we were having downstream packet loss later that night of roughly the same amount but in my opinion that was probably another issue. I'm pretty good at detecting very small amounts of packet loss or latency issues on Teamspeak, which is how I picked up on it later that night, but didn't pick up on anything just prior to the internet disconnecting. Mentioned because it was downstream packet loss only.
Final thoughts
Problems seem to occur when the phone rings. Due to the nature of caller display occuring when the phone rings, I assume this could also be the reason that it has randomly not worked.
Internet doesn't disconnect on quickly picked up inbound phone calls, I assume the router manages to recover the Broadband connection fast enough to no drop it.
Sorry for the wall of text!
Cheers,
Rob
Edit: WiFi hub still showing connection uptime as 9 days 23 hours, even though it's reconnected multiple times and dropped the sync speed slightly too. I assume the firmware for the WiFi hub is a work in progress? :tongue:
Hi Rob_B
Have you also tested with a different phone?
Thanks
Debbie
Hi Rob
Thanks for your reply.
Was the corded handset connected at the test socket with the router removed from the line?
Please can you also add an alternative contact number to your Community Profile, I can then raise this fault over to our Network Team for investigation.
Thanks
Debbie
Hi Rob
Would it be possible to remove the router and test with just the phone and filter at the test socket? This will help us rule out if the router is causing the noise on the line.
Thanks
Debbie
Heya,
Yep I can do, but I've just swapped out the cordless for the corded phone and noticed there was no static upon picking up the phone. Swapped back to cordless and there's still no static. This is without removing the filter/router. The internet also didn't disconnect and caller display worked fine.
I could swap it out currently, but it's not going to show anything at the moment because it's currently, bizarely, static free. This seems like it's going to be a massive pain to pin down!
I suppose the only thing I can do is try and wait for a disconnection and then try and test around that time?
Could it be possible that the Open Reach engineer missed something that was "ballsed up" by the original engineer that swapped us to Fibre? Since the original issue was no internet but phoneline was fine after switching over, could they have failed to check the phone connection?
Cheers,
Rob